Mrs. Helen Scharff Succumbs Following Six Weeks Illness

 

   Mrs. Helen Hohenemser Scharff, widow of Gerson Scharff, who died here in 1931, died Tuesday at Methodist Hospital following an illness of six weeks.  Mrs. Scharff had spent much of her life making others happy.  For more than thirty years, she visited patients at Home for Incurables, at B’nai B’rith Home and Hospital and at other local hospitals and in private homes.  She had also helped immigrants before the city had a program organized for them.

   Mrs. Scharff was born 84 years ago on November 25, 1870 in Haigerloch, Hohenzollern, Germany, near Stuttgart.  She came to the United States at the age of 18 and lived in Decatur, Texas, where she met and married Mr. Scharff before moving to Memphis about two years after her marriage.

   She was active in Temple Israel, where she was a charter member of its Sisterhood.  She was also active in Cummings School PTA and was a member of the Central and South Side PTA and of B’nai B’rith Women.

   She made her home at 1174 Fountain Court, where she had lived for forty-one years.

   Surviving are her four sons, I. G.; Jake H. and Alfred M. Scharff, of Memphis, and Joe R. Scharff, of Bay St. Louis, Miss.; her two daughters, Mrs. Charles LaVene, of Memphis and Mrs. Bernard Ecker of Oak Park, Ill.; her brother Julius Hohenemser, of Memphis, and four grandsons.

   Services were held at 2 p. m. Wednesday at Temple Israel, with Rabbi James A. Wax officiating.  Interment was in Temple Israel Cemetery.

 

Hebrew Watchman

September 15, 1955,  section 2,  page 9

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Mrs. Helen Scharff Succumbs Following Six Weeks Illness

 

   Mrs. Helen Hohenemser Scharff, widow of Gerson Scharff, who died here in 1931, died Tuesday at Methodist Hospital following an illness of six weeks.  Mrs. Scharff had spent much of her life making others happy.  For more than thirty years, she visited patients at Home for Incurables, at B’nai B’rith Home and Hospital and at other local hospitals and in private homes.  She had also helped immigrants before the city had a program organized for them.

   Mrs. Scharff was born 84 years ago on November 25, 1870 in Haigerloch, Hohenzollern, Germany, near Stuttgart.  She came to the United States at the age of 18 and lived in Decatur, Texas, where she met and married Mr. Scharff before moving to Memphis about two years after her marriage.

   She was active in Temple Israel, where she was a charter member of its Sisterhood.  She was also active in Cummings School PTA and was a member of the Central and South Side PTA and of B’nai B’rith Women.

   She made her home at 1174 Fountain Court, where she had lived for forty-one years.

   Surviving are her four sons, I. G.; Jake H. and Alfred M. Scharff, of Memphis, and Joe R. Scharff, of Bay St. Louis, Miss.; her two daughters, Mrs. Charles LaVene, of Memphis and Mrs. Bernard Ecker of Oak Park, Ill.; her brother Julius Hohenemser, of Memphis, and four grandsons.

   Services were held at 2 p. m. Wednesday at Temple Israel, with Rabbi James A. Wax officiating.  Interment was in Temple Israel Cemetery.

 

Hebrew Watchman

September 15, 1955,  section 2,  page 9